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- BLIX(6D) Xtreme Graphics Software BLIX(6D)
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- NAME
- blix - mouse-in-maze game
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- SYNOPSIS
- blix [ -s ] [ -w ]
-
- DESCRIPTION
- The game presents you with a mouse in a maze on a sphere. The mouse
- faces all sorts of dangers. The goal is to show the mouse through
- the maze by letting it walk using the 'mouse'.
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- There are three types of monsters: spider, fish and bones.
- The spider is the slowest, but the smartest; the bones are
- very fast, so watch out.
-
- In the lower left corner of the screen you see your score, and
- in the right corner you see your highscore.
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- A level is finished when you destroyed all the elevators in the
- maze. Elevators can only be destroyed when the door is completely
- open.
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- BLIX OPTIONS
- The following options can be specified on the command line
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- -s no music.
- Initially no music (can be turned on in the program).
- -w no worldscore.
- Disable network access to the world-wide highscore server.
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- BLIX CONTROL
- The following mouse-buttons have been defined when in the blix window.
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- Left button : move the mouse in the direction of the pointer.
- Middle Button : Rotate the sphere
- Left + Middle Button : Zoom (Move up = zoom in)
- Right Button : Options Menu
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- To place a BOMB hit the space bar on the keyboard.
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- BLIX CUSTOMIZATION
- Blix tries to find its data files in several different places, but if
- it complains about not being able to locate blix.dat, you might set
- the environment variable BLIXDIR to hold the path to that file (and
- all the others).
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- Blix manages three lists of highscores: your personal one, a system
- wide one and a world wide one. Only your personal one is a real
- highscore list, because the other two in general show only the best
- seven players, not the seven highest scores achieved.
- For each player blix can insert an image and a name in the highscore
- list. The image should be stored in the file .bliximage in your home
- directory before you start the game. The image format used is Iris RGB
- with a maximum size of 100x100 pixels. Images that fail to match the
- specified format are silently ignored. The imagefile should be
- readable by anyone on your system.
- Instead of your username, you can use an alias. simply write one down
- in the first line of the file .blixalias and store that file in your
- home directory.
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- BLIX WORLD WIDE HIGHSCORE
- If you cannot connect to the world wide highscore server, or if you
- don't want to appear on that world wide highscore list, you should
- start the game with the -w option. Otherwise, the program will
- request the current highscore from the server, and if there are
- entries on that list with photographs of people you don't have,
- then blix will request those images from the server. Blix will
- remove images no longer on the highscore list. If, during your game
- run, blix discovers that you might have beaten one of the entries
- on the world wide highscore, it will send your score plus your image
- to the server.
-
- The world wide hishscore list can be viewed without the images on the
- www server of Silicon Graphics. Use a networkbrowser like Mosaic
- (ftp-able from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu) and examine
- http://www.sgi.com:8181/score.html
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- If you are running your own 'world wide' highscore server, you need
- to set the environment variable BLIXSERVER to hold the numeric
- internet address which may include a port number as a suffix,
- separated from the internet address by a colon.
-
- NOTE
- The online help in the Options Menu (via the right mouse button)
- needs showcase 3.0 or higher.
- The data files in the obj subdirectory may be compressed for saving
- diskspace, or uncompressed for faster loading.
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- (c) 1994 Frans van Hoesel, hoesel@chem.rug.nl
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- Page 1 Xtreme Graphics Software January 1994
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